Download or read book The Official History of the Great Strike of 1886 on the Southwestern Railway System written by Missouri. Bureau of Labor Statistics and Inspection and published by . This book was released on 1887 with total page 134 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Official History of the Great Strike of 1886 on the Southwestern Railway System written by Missouri. Bureau of Labor Statistics and published by . This book was released on 1886 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Official History of the Great Strike of 1886 on the South western Railway System written by Missouri. Labour Statistics, Bureau of and published by . This book was released on 1887 with total page 117 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Pinkerton s Great Detective written by Beau Riffenburgh and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2013-11-14 with total page 417 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The story of the legendary Pinkerton detective who took down the Molly Maguires and the Wild Bunch The operatives of the Pinkerton’s National Detective Agency were renowned for their skills of subterfuge, infiltration, and investigation, none more so than James McParland. So thrilling were McParland’s cases that Sir Arthur Conan Doyle included the cunning detective in a story along with Sherlock Holmes. Riffenburgh digs deep into the recently released Pinkerton archives to present the first biography of McParland and the agency’s cloak-and-dagger methods. Both action packed and meticulously researched, Pinkerton’s Great Detective brings readers along on McParland’s most challenging cases: from young McParland’s infiltration of the murderous Molly Maguires gang in the case that launched his career to his hunt for the notorious Butch Cassidy and the Wild Bunch to his controversial investigation of the Western Federation of Mines in the assassination of Idaho’s former governor. Filled with outlaws and criminals, detectives and lawmen, Pinkerton’s Great Detective shines a light upon the celebrated secretive agency and its premier sleuth.
Download or read book Follow the Flag written by H. Roger Grant and published by Cornell University Press. This book was released on 2019-10-15 with total page 472 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Follow the Flag" offers the first authoritative history of the Wabash Railroad Company, a once vital interregional carrier. The corporate saga of the Wabash involved the efforts of strong-willed and creative leaders, but this book provides more than traditional business history. Noted transportation historian H. Roger Grant captures the human side of the Wabash, ranging from the medical doctors who created an effective hospital department to the worker-sponsored social events. And Grant has not ignored the impact the Wabash had on businesses and communities in the "Heart of America." Like most major American carriers, the Wabash grew out of an assortment of small firms, including the first railroad to operate in Illinois, the Northern Cross. Thanks in part to the genius of financier Jay Gould, by the early 1880s what was then known as the Wabash, St. Louis & Pacific Railway reached the principal gateways of Chicago, Des Moines, Detroit, Kansas City, and St. Louis. In the 1890s, the Wabash gained access to Buffalo and direct connections to Boston and New York City. One extension, spearheaded by Gould's eldest son, George, fizzled. In 1904 entry into Pittsburgh caused financial turmoil, ultimately throwing the Wabash into receivership. A subsequent reorganization allowed the Wabash to become an important carrier during the go-go years of the 1920s and permitted the company to take control of a strategic "bridge" property, the Ann Arbor Railroad. The Great Depression forced the company into another receivership, but an effective reorganization during the early days of World War II gave rise to a generally robust road. Its famed Blue Bird streamliner, introduced in 1950 between Chicago and St. Louis, became a widely recognized symbol of the "New Wabash." When "merger madness" swept the railroad industry in the 1960s, the Wabash, along with the Nickel Plate Road, joined the prosperous Norfolk & Western Railway, a merger that worked well for all three carriers. Immortalized in the popular folk song "Wabash Cannonball," the midwestern railroad has left important legacies. Today, forty years after becoming a "fallen flag" carrier, key components of the former Wabash remain busy rail arteries and terminals, attesting to its historic value to American transportation.
Download or read book Robber Barons and Wretched Refuse written by Robert F. Zeidel and published by Cornell University Press. This book was released on 2020-04-15 with total page 420 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Robber Barons and Wretched Refuse explores the connection between the so-called robber barons who led American big businesses during the Gilded Age and Progressive Era and the immigrants who composed many of their workforces. As Robert F. Zeidel argues, attribution of industrial-era class conflict to an "alien" presence supplements nativism—a sociocultural negativity toward foreign-born residents—as a reason for Americans' dislike and distrust of immigrants. And in the era of American industrialization, employers both relied on immigrants to meet their growing labor needs and blamed them for the frequently violent workplace contentions of the time. Through a sweeping narrative, Zeidel uncovers the connection of immigrants to radical "isms" that gave rise to widespread notions of alien subversives whose presence threatened America's domestic tranquility and the well-being of its residents. Employers, rather than looking at their own practices for causes of workplace conflict, wontedly attributed strikes and other unrest to aliens who either spread pernicious "foreign" doctrines or fell victim to their siren messages. These characterizations transcended nationality or ethnic group, applying at different times to all foreign-born workers. Zeidel concludes that, ironically, stigmatizing immigrants as subversives contributed to the passage of the Quota Acts, which effectively stemmed the flow of wanted foreign workers. Post-war employers argued for preserving America's traditional open door, but the negativity that they had assigned to foreign workers contributed to its closing.
Download or read book Political Science Quarterly written by and published by . This book was released on 1887 with total page 740 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A review devoted to the historical statistical and comparative study of politics, economics and public law.
Download or read book Catalogue of the Library of the State Historical Society of Wisconsin First to fifth supplements Additions from 1873 1887 written by State Historical Society of Wisconsin. Library and published by . This book was released on 1887 with total page 672 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Includes titles on all subjects, some in foreign languages, later incorporated into Memorial Library.
Download or read book The Official History of the Great Strike of 1886 written by and published by . This book was released on 2015-07-21 with total page 122 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from The Official History of the Great Strike of 1886: On the Southwestern Railway System This history may be of value to the members of the General Assembly and others who are studying the labor problems now monopolizing so much of public attention. It is simply a compilation of historical facts, official correspondence and important data obtained from the most trustworthy sources. It is intended to be perfectly fair and impartial, and where deductions are drawn at all they are only natural and logical conclusions. As to the merits of the contest between the Knights of Labor and the railways, the reader must form his own opinion. This, with unimportant eliminations and additions, is the report prepared for the National Bureau of Labor. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Download or read book A History of Travel in America written by Seymour Dunbar and published by . This book was released on 1915 with total page 438 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book A History of Travel in America vol 4 written by Seymour Dunbar and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2008-08-08 with total page 426 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Volume 4 of 4. Being an Outline of the Development in Modes of Travel from Archaic Vehicles of Colonial Times to the Completion of the First Transcontinental Railroad: the Influence of the Indians on the Free Movement and Territorial Unity of the White Race: the Part Played by Travel Methods in the Economic Conquest of the Continent: and those Related Human Experiences, Changing Social Conditions and Governmental Attitudes which Accompanied the Growth of a National Travel System.
Download or read book Harper s Encyclop dia of United States History from 458 A D to 1906 written by Benson John Lossing and published by . This book was released on 1907 with total page 606 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Harper s Encyclop dia of United States History from 458 A D to 1905 written by Benson John Lossing and published by . This book was released on 1905 with total page 612 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Harper s Encyclop dia of United States History written by Benson John Lossing and published by . This book was released on 1901 with total page 616 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book A History of Travel in America written by Seymour Dunbar and published by Praeger. This book was released on 1968 with total page 426 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Harper s Encyclopaedia of United States History from 458 A D to 1912 written by Benson John Lossing and published by . This book was released on 1912 with total page 574 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Bulletin of the Public Library of the City of Boston written by Boston Public Library and published by . This book was released on 1887 with total page 438 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
